Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-31486859-20171115031048/@comment-32211283-20171121054541

Hayds126 wrote: I don’t think there should be a speed run mode since you can literally just use any stopwatch. Gameplay would be the same except you have pressure to see a clock ticking. Speed runners can easily enough set up their own stop watch.

For when I first started PBB just about before the flying gym, I noticed a really big level curve. I was dealing with mostly level 36-40 which wasn’t too bad. It was a bit annoying to train but I pushed through up to that point. But the moment I went to anthian, all trainers I faced were level 47-50! At this point my strongest Pokémon was my greninja at about level 42 and it could barely hold out on its own. Normally I would invest in grinding some wild Pokémon only to find they were level 30 or so. I remember my sister just gave up and quit the game when that happened. I tried researching on the best ways to train without robux and found there was a trainer that could give you lots of xp (I think it was adventurer tanner)

Even with this guy who gave about 4000 xp per battle, it was tough. I had to grind for hours trying to train all my Pokémon. Eventually I did and was able to beat the gym leader. I thought that was it. I should be good to go for the rest of my journey. Boy was I wrong, I was stuck in an endless loop of grinding for the rest of the game. To the point I lost motivation and almost gave up the game completely.

To put it simply, once you get to anthian

Wild Pokémon are 10 or more levels lower than your Pokémon

Trainers pokemon 10 or more levels higher than your Pokémon

PBB leveling is more broken than heart gold and soul silver. I would try a nuzlocke on that any day over PBB (nuzlocke on hgss is known to be one of the hardest ones to complete) I feel you. I always did normal, but in my old account, I failed at 5th gym and then sometime later, I made my new account. After I kept on getting defeated really bad by the 4th gym. When I finally beat it, I grinded EXP for a long time, then I got frustrated and battled Cypress, nearly lost to Tyler, and then trained a long time for the 5th gym. My Sceptile is level 70 when I completed those painful months of training. I don't even know how long that was